Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland

"Angela... the angel of death is back!"

1989 1h 19m EN

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★5.4TMDB · 249

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Psychotic Angela is itching to do what she does best: slaughter dozens of teenage campers. As luck would have it, the previous site of her murders has been renamed and converted into an experimental summer camp meant to bring together privileged and lower-class teens. On the day the youths are boarding the buses to camp, Angela runs over a potential camper with a garbage truck and assumes her identity. Once she has infiltrated the camp, the real terror begins.

“Angela... the angel of death is back!”

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Cast

Pamela Springsteen
Angela Baker
Tracy Griffith
Marcia Holland
Michael J. Pollard
Herman Miranda
Kyle Holman
Snowboy
Sandra Dorsey
Lilly
Kim Wall
Cindy
Haynes Brooke
Bobby Stark
Daryl Wilcher
Riff

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Michael A. Simpson
Writers: Michael Hitchcock
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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RUNTIME

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Tight 79-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.

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MONEY

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Shot for just $0.5M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.

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ERA

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37 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.

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4 / 8

CINEMA

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Part of the "Sleepaway Camp Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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5 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Michael A. Simpson, shot by Bill Mills. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by James Oliverio. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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7 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor John David Allen shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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8 / 8

CAST

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Pamela Springsteen and Tracy Griffith and Michael J. Pollard carry the top of the cast.

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The take

Michael A. Simpson directs. Bill Mills behind the camera. James Oliverio scores. John David Allen cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

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1Tight 79-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
2Shot for just $0.5M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.
337 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
4Part of the "Sleepaway Camp Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
5Directed by Michael A. Simpson, shot by Bill Mills. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
6Original score by James Oliverio. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
7Editor John David Allen shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
8Pamela Springsteen and Tracy Griffith and Michael J. Pollard carry the top of the cast.
9Marketing tagline: "Angela... the angel of death is back!".
10IMDB entry: tt0096119 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
11Classified under 11 themes, including "summer camp", "psychopath", "anti hero", "sociopath".
12Released under 10 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: Bill Mills
Original score: James Oliverio
Editing: John David Allen
Stunt coordinator: Lonnie R. Smith Jr.
Runtime: 79 min · 1h 19m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $465,000
Original language: EN
Certification (US): R
IMDB: Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland (1989)

Part of

Sleepaway Camp Collection

Slasher comedy films following killer camp counselor, Angela Baker.

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Wuchak2019-07-25
★ 5/10
Mediocre, but fun, rehash of the previous film Angela (Pamela Springsteen) returns to the same camp where she slaughtered the inhabitants the year before under an assumed identity. Renamed Camp New Horizons, the coordinators seek to bring together privileged kids from the suburbs & small towns with underprivileged kids from the big cities. Michael J. Pollard appears as one of the camp counselors. The other counselor is reminiscent of Paula Dean. “Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland” (1989) is a rehash of the previous film (1988) with the same director/writer team and star (Springsteen), but of course a whole new cast of victims. The film even features cuts by the same semi-obscure 80’s bands: Anvil (“Wild Eyes”), Obsession (“Methods of Madness” & “Killer Elite”) and John Altyn (“Sleepaway”). The main difference is a focus on tent camping and the mixing of “rich” kids with “poor.” The movie’s fun, but it lacks the mojo of the previous film. There’s less depth as far as human interest goes: The characters and their relations are so exaggerated it’s campy, which kills any realism. Yes, I realize it’s an amusing 80’s slasher flick set at a youth camp, but the two preceding movie’s included gems in the coming-of-age context, which is largely lacking here. Still, “Sleepaway Camp III” has its entertaining moments. Tracy Griffith as redhead Marcia and Stacie Lambert as Jan are highlights. The film runs 1 hour, 20 minutes, and was shot in Bremen, Georgia, about an hour’s drive west of Atlanta (the same as Part II); with the opening scenes shot in Atlanta. GRADE: C

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